WISCONSIN AR ACTIVIST DIES AFTER GOV SIGNS PUPPY MILL LAW

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WISCONSIN PUPPY MILL ACTIVIST DIES AFTER GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL

 

By Hart Van Denburg

Thu., Dec. 3 2009 @ 10:47AM

 

 

​Joyce Kitsemble spent years working for a change in Wisconsin law that would

ban abusive dog-breeding kennels called puppy mills. She and her husband, Ed,

gathered 5,000 signatures in a petition drive to get the law passed. And the

couple were on hand in Madison when Gov. Jim Doyle signed the bill into law. A

few hours later, she was dead.

 

The 70-year-old woman started feeling ill during the signing ceremony at the

Capitol. She was helped from the room and later taken to an area hospital, where

she died, WQOW-TV reported.

 

Here's an excerpt from her obituary today in the Wisconsin Rapids Trubune:

 

Joyce dedicated her life to saving and rescuing animals. She spent the last

10 years of her life supporting Puppy Mill Legislation in the state of

Wisconsin, witnessing the signing of this bill by our governor on the day of her

death. She was relentless supporter of animal rights. She also enjoyed

homemaking and tending to her beautiful flower gardens.

 

" Joyce made a cruel world better, " the Wisconsin Puppy Mill Project's

Ribbens told WQOW. " Her dream of seeing puppy mill dogs get protection under the

law came to pass in her lifetime, and for that, I am eternally grateful. "

 

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